In my experience, even when I've framed it as "something needs to change" to try to be less direct in saying that they need to change, they still just say "correct, you do need to change." Hopefully some people will get it, though.

That's the narcissist playbook, congrats you have narcs in your life

They quoted the same Texas psychologist for both, and lordy does he come off as much more of a far right loon in the latter.

For context, he blames "victim culture," "gender ideology," "therapy" and "tiktok" for estrangement. Pretty clear to see where his biases lie.

L. O. L. That second article has some choice bits. Point 2 is almost good enough to post in its entirety:

"Someone might see a video on TikTok — 'I cut off my parents, and I'm much happier now. They were toxic narcissistic boundary crossers. And now I'm great,'" he said. "And people mimic that. Or they think, 'Oh, this person's getting a lot of attention.'"

Kids are going no contact for attention because of social media

Although he acknowledged that there are no long-term studies that have definitively documented an increase, "that doesn't mean absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence."

Just cuz we don't have evidence of the thing I'm claiming, that doesn't mean I'm wrong

According to Blake, society has shifted away from what he described as a "dignity culture" toward one that places greater value on "victim culture."

"So now it's a race to the bottom," he said. "If you don't have enough victim status because of the way you were born, you can create a victim status by suggesting your parents abused you or neglected you … and therefore you have value, a reason to cut them off."

And it gets worse.... The very next bit

The expert also pointed to what he described as "therapy culture," claiming that changing attitudes toward trauma and abuse have influenced how some people view relationships with their parents.

People are now seeing abuse for what it is, and abusers are mad about it

"Another justification is, ‘I cut off my parents to protect my mental health’ — and this is a sort of false belief," he told Fox News Digital. "There is this huge bias that if you're struggling in your adult life, it must be because your parents did something they shouldn't or didn't do something."

Yep, we're just faking being miserable dealing with magat family members how abused and mistreated us from childhood to adulthood. Clearly sticking by them is better for your mental health.

Blake also raised the issue of "moralized language," or "therapy words" that get thrown at parents — "such as abuse, toxic, boundaries, narcissists, gaslighting."

Yeah, even though he quickly follows it up with legit advice like asking for evidence of the behavior and using 'I' instead of 'you' or avoiding 'always'/'never' statements, that is a whole color guard of red flags that tell me this dude needs to go fornicate with a cactus before anyone listens to him.

I've had a narcissist parent attempt to try to DARVO my setting boundaries to protect my mental health from her emotional abuse into me being the toxic one because I wouldn't keep tolerating the cycle of abuse.

"If you look at the outcomes of the gentle parenting or the permissive parenting that we've slipped into, we have the most mentally ill generation in history, the least fit for adulthood," Blake suggested. "Perhaps we should be learning from our grandparents more than the therapists."

Yeah, we should just beat our children till they fall in line, or throw them in an asylum where we don't have to look at or deal with them. Much better.

This dude can get entirely fucked.

the younger rabid r fans are into the full propaganda stuff, like newsmax, or oan. or mostly the right wing podcasters.

Fox News is not mainstream media. Fox News is right-wing propaganda, explicitly set up to steer the country into the fascism that is currently eating the Constitution.

My best guess is that they move their mainstream to TikTok, Threads, and Instagram.

They pay the companies enough to ensure they aren't completely blocked from the platforms.

I've love to think that the end of the boomers will be the end of the propaganda, but i'm not foolish enough to give that any real hope.

Using anxiety against you, that sucks I'm sorry. I'm the same way, especially when attention is on me I freeze and can't give examples. I started writing them letters but I don't think they ever read them. 😑

No, but the Republicans are extra shitty there.

Never met anyone who was proud to be from Texas that wasn't a massive piece of shit. Feels like everyone decent living there hates it and wants to leave.